George's Mother
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"We are not going to object to the narrative of a squalid debauch, but we do assert that if a writer forces it upon our notice, he shall justify himself by limning it with some power and artistic sense, as Zola drew, in L'Assommoir, that Rabelaisian revel at which Coupeau and Lantier met and opened up the way for the final débâcle. Rhyparography is the lowest form of art, but at least it should be good of its kind. Mr. Crane’s rhyparography is in this book incongruous, formless, and deadly dull." --Harry Thurston Peck, 1896, Bookman, July 1896, pp. 446–447 qtd. in Monteiro, 2009, p. 81, italics in original, via [1] |
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George's Mother is a novel by American novelist Stephen Crane, first published in 1896. The novel relates to Crane's earlier novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, as the title character of that work makes a brief appearance.
